Saturday, July 02, 2005

Fireworks and Inaugurations

"Fireworks" and "Inauguraton of the Pleasure Dome"

On July 4, NASA's probe "Deep Impact" is expected to slam into Comet Tempel 1, carving out a "crater the size of a football field and between 7 and 14 stories deep." It seems apt that the dimensions match those of a football field, America's standard unit of measurement, and on Independence Day, no less. And like Independence Day, "Deep Impact" was once a movie, too.

America speaks the language of film. Often, seemingly without knowing what it's saying.

A Bloomberg headline reads "NASA's Deep Impact Fireworks to Light Up Space on 4th of July." So, is it a fireworks display? Comet Tempel - occasionally misspelled "Temple" - is 82 million miles away, and the probe was launched January 12 with a one-second window. Of course it's a display - full spectrum pyrotechnics in the rockets' red glare - though it's supposed purpose is to "analyze the gases and dust thrown up by the impact with a series of four instruments and relay the information back to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory."

And that reminds me: "Fireworks" is also the title of a film; a short film released in 1947, the first of significance by OTO adept Kenneth Anger, shot by the then 17-year old over three days at his family's house while his parents were away attending the funeral of a relative. Anger cast himself as the transfigured victim/sacrifice of ritualized sexual violence delivered by the homoerotic archetype of a US sailor. It's harrowing, and moving, and funnier than it sounds. (Who can't help but laugh at the roman candle sequence?) Anger's an important filmmaker, whose sexual pyrotechnics makes manifest the latency of America's red rocket.

About the same time Anger was making "Fireworks," Jack Parsons, of both the OTO and the Jet Propulsions Laboratory (JPL is said, half-jokingly, to stand also for "Jack Parsons' lab") was engaged in his "Babalon Working, " which only sounds like a movie. (It's intent was a real blockbuster, too: open a rift in space-time to introduce transdimensional entitities to our reality and so hasten its end.) His partners were first L Ron Hubbard and later, his "Elemental," Marjorie Cameron.

In 1954, Anger filmed "Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome," which starred Parson's Elemental, Cameron, as the "Scarlet Woman."

Also appearing in "Inauguration" was Anger's fellow filmmaker and ceremonial magician Renate Druks. After Parsons' 1952 death when his garage-laboratory blew up, Druks took in Cameron. Druks told Nat Freedland for 1972's Occult Explosion that Cameron "stayed with me at my Malibu Beach home for six months, pulling herself together after Jack died. I have every reason to believe that Jack Parson was working on some very strange experiments, trying to create what the old alchemists called a homunculus, a tiny artificial man with magic powers. I think that's what he was working on when the accident happened."

I'm not suggesting everything from "Fireworks" and Parsons to "Deep Impact" and the military-occult complex are related, other than to say, it's all America. If it's not an unbroken thread, it's all of the same cloth. And I've had the sense in recent weeks that something is being inaugurated. If you looked behind, or perhaps through, Bush last Tuesday evening, and could see the spectral smiley faces and chopped flags which evoked the dimensions of the twin towers, maybe you had the same sense, too.

The news, which isn't news at all, that Karl Rove was the source of the Plame leak, feels like the beginning of the end. But what's ending, and what may be beginning, I don't know.

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Anonymous said...

So, even if we do accept the popular rationalisations, we're a society full of insane people, some of whom perform awfull crimes for no particular reason, with however, a shocking degree of coordination and frequency, which must explain why the authorites are powerless to control all these aimless crazy people. And none of us can be trusted to participate in the discourse about what is real because we all have ulterior agendas, except for the orthodox scientists, who are the only sane people on earth. Religion is okay as long as we don't treat any of that stuff as a functional reality right here. And since it's all a disinformation campaign anyway, we might as well let the bankers and corporate executives, and particularly the politicians, who are the only other sane people on earth, get on with what they're doing, because they're just hardworking public servants with no ulterior agendas, not like the insane people who continue to vote them in, in some miraculous display of blind luck. And it's a good thing that there no deeper agendas whatsoever in this world because,DA-amn we can barely handle the shit in front of us.

and NONE of us embody the terrifying, the magnificent, the supernatural, the unexpected, the heroic, or the villianous.

Just lunatics running the asylum. Good thing we've got no sharp objects in here...

Somewhat off-topic, but since you mention Scientology, there's a post about Cruise and Scientology at Kevin Drum's blog, with a long, long comments thread full of all kinds of interesting comments about Scientology. In case you're interested.

I have to remind myself never to look at your blog before I compose my own, your thought turf is so seductively green and inviting. Three cheers for this subtle semiotic analysis, as well as for giving voice to your sense that the smell of sulphur is in the air, and it ain't from the cherry bombs and Roman candles. . .

MOSCOW -- China and Russia here Friday issued a joint statement on a new world order in the 21st century, setting forth their common stand on major international issues, such as UN reforms, globalization, North-South cooperation, and world economy and trade.

The statement was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao after their talks.

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The joint statement believes that the world is undergoing a historic change. The establishment of a new world order will be a long and complicated process, it says.

I don't know who's playing games with whom here -- and perhaps I'm reading more into this than it deserves -- but it seems like one more strangeness at a moment of strange transitions.

"New world order"I think most of us knew way back, When Bush Senior started talking about this on his speeches. This thing can happen over night.remember the Berlin wall...All it takes is a world wide trigger event.

This may be off subject, although the more we see how things are so interrelated I am not so sure...Remember Jeff's post on the flying eggs. I cannot remember the title now, but it must be there somewhere on the sideboard archive list.I came across this strange pictorial symbol on the FW website. Click the link and scroll way down to find what looks like a symbol of a flying egg. It just seems uncanny to me, and I wonder what that symbol is suppose to convey?http://freemasonrywatch.org/tracingboard.html

Hi, I'm a frequent visitor to your site along with SOHO and many others. Has anyone commented on the synchronicity of the launch date and arrival date of Deep Impact? What I mean specifically is that the launch of the probe was on January 8th and the arrival is July 4th. 1+8=9 7+4=11 9/11 Can this simply be coincidence given the occult nature of this current cabal, along with the propensity and use of occult and hyperdimensional numerology that pervades JPL, NASA and the U.S. Government? Just a thought, keep up the good work.

Slomo posted a link to Goro Adachi's treatment of the timing significance of current events. Goro emphasizes July 6, that also being the beginning day of the G-8 summit. What he did not make note of is that July 6 is GWB's 59th birthday.

Tronicus, it's a "winged kneph," a Masonic symbol. It's a variation of the egyptian Chnoubis, a symbol of the reconciled solar and cthonic nature, the 're-ascent' of the spirit. (According to Plutarch, the pneuma)

What is real? That's a theme much on my mind after my husband was told last week that he does not, as he was told ten years ago, bipolar. And strangely, I was just reading up on Ms. Cameron around that time last week. Synchronicity? The collective unconscious? Or..nothing at all? I often don't know what is real and what is illusion, or if there's much of a difference at all. Ms. Cameron believed to the end of her life that she DID have an indispensable role in "unleashing hell" with the Babylon Working.